Muslim Minority-State Relations [electronic resource] : Violence, Integration, and Policy /
Mason, Robert.editor.
This volume explores the dominant types of relationships between Muslim minorities and states in different parts of the world, the challenges each side faces, and the cases and reasons for exemplary integration, religious tolerance, and freedom of expression. By bringing together diverse case studies from Europe, Africa, and Asia, this book offers insight into the nature of state engagement with Muslim communities and Muslim community responses towards the state, in turn. This collection offers readers the opportunity to learn more about what drives government policy on Muslim minority communities, Muslim community policies and responses in turn, and where common ground lies in building religious tolerance, greater community cohesion and enhancing Muslim community-state relations.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This volume explores the dominant types of relationships between Muslim minorities and states in different parts of the world, the challenges each side faces, and the cases and reasons for exemplary integration, religious tolerance, and freedom of expression. By bringing together diverse case studies from Europe, Africa, and Asia, this book offers insight into the nature of state engagement with Muslim communities and Muslim community responses towards the state, in turn. This collection offers readers the opportunity to learn more about what drives government policy on Muslim minority communities, Muslim community policies and responses in turn, and where common ground lies in building religious tolerance, greater community cohesion and enhancing Muslim community-state relations.
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword; John L. Esposito Preface and Acknowledgements Executive Summary; Robert Mason 1. Muslim - State Relations in Great Britain: An Evolving Story; Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood 2. A Century of the Official Legal Status of Islam in Austria: Between the Law on Islam of 1912 and the Law on Islam of 2015; Agata Skowron-Nalborczyk 3. Relations Between the State and Islam in Finland and Poland; Agata Skowron-Nalborczyk 4. Muslim - State Relations in Russia; Galina Yemelianova 5. Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Between Challenge and Opportunity; Zacharias Pierri and Fr. Atta Barkindo  6. Muslim - State Relations in Kenya; Mario Aguilar 7. Muslim - State Relations in Sri Lanka: A Challenge for Post-Conflict Reconciliation; Amjad Saleem 8. Religion, Nationalism and the Rohingya's Search for Citizenship in Myanmar; Samak Kosem and Amjad Saleem Notes on Contributors Index.
International relations.
Islam.
Ethnology—Middle East .
Religion and sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
International Relations.
Islam.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Religion and Society.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Sociology of Religion.